Manly changing is using one arm to take your t-shirt off (getting your head stuck in the process) and dumping it on the floor next to discarded pizza boxes. Womanly changing is when they do that efficient crossed arm at the base of the t-shirt thing and pull upwards in a smooth motion.

This is true. But look how far into the thread it took before someone mentioned HTML::Template. And that came after someone else suggested rolling your own tool (presumably he means a templating system)

crab: for stuff which I don't care too much about, I'll use IntoVPS, $10 a month, you can't really beat 30GB HD, 512MB ram(1GB burstable), and 500GB tranfer :P only con is the business is ran out of romania(even though the server are colo'd all over)

at that point I have a kind of queue object at which I can call non-blocking check for incoming data (e.g. in recurring handler) or to make a blocking check (which will obviously block the whole mojoloop for the given worker thread)